Madero's Friends To Fight Huerta.

New York Times 100 years ago today, February 22, 1913:
    MEXICO CITY. Feb. 21.— It is certain that the new Administration in Mexico must deal with a new revolution in addition to the remnants of the old one. Three Governors of States in the republic formally have refused to recognize Provisional President Victoriano Huerta, and two or three others are doubtful.
    Venostiano Carranza, Governor of the State of Coahuila, with 1,200 men, is working with Emilio and Raoul Madero, brothers of the deposed President, who are at San Pedro, Madero's old home near Saltillo, which is Carranza's base. Jose Gayou, ex-Governor of Sonora, has telegraphed from Mexicali to Gov. Maytorena of Senora, offering him 3,000 men and 2,000,000 pesos to restore Madero to office. Gov. Maytorena has telegraphed the Senate and Provisional President Huerta repudiating the new administration.
    The Governor of Yucatan, ignorant of the death of Gustavo Madero, has wired him, offering the services of 1,200 men and an amount of money to assist in a new revolution.
    What will be done with ex-President Madero has not yet been determined. Juan Sanchez Azcona, Madero's private secretary, is a prisoner at Puebla. It was reported to-day that he had been shot, but the report proved untrue.

Porfirio Diaz to Return.
    Gen. Porfirio Diaz, ex-President of the republic, who has been in exile in Europe, is coming home. There is not the slightest danger that he again will mix in the politics of Mexico, but his enforced exile is ended. Word was received to-day from Paris that within a short time he again would be in his private residence in Cadena Street, an interested spectator of the development of the new regime.
    It was authoritatively stated to-day that the arrival home of Gen. Diaz would be not later than April 2, the anniversary of the taking of Puebla by his forces in 1867 in the war of French intervention. This day will be celebrated in his honor.
    That the new Administration expects to employ the stern methods of Porfirio Diaz in governing the country was made evident to-day in a conversation which Provisional President Huerta had with the newspaper men.
    President Huerta explained that no matter what the cost or who the men were who paid it, peace would be restored in Mexico. He said it was his ambition that when he left the Presidency people would say of him: "He has restored order throughout Mexico — made safe the investment of money and rendered secure the lives and interests of all, both foreigners and Mexicans."
    Calmly and dispassionately he outlined his programme for the use of the army in restoring and maintaining order. He admitted that in many parts of the republic, where the news of the change in Government had not been received, all was not in accord with peace. To these sections, he said, he would send emissaries in an attempt to bring about order, or, if necessary, troops would be dispatched to them to inform the people of the Government's desires.

Would Reassure Foreigners.
    "I want to restore to Mexico that uninterrupted current of riches which is her right," he continued, "and to bring about such conditions in the country that all the diplomats will feel that their nationals are secure."
    He said that be favored a free press, as he believed that even antagonistic organs were desirable since from them the Administration might learn of evils that otherwise might be hidden.
    An emissary of President Huerta left to-day for Saltillo, capital of the State of Coahuila, bearing a letter to Gov. Venostiano Carranza. In this letter a final effort is made to get the Governor's adhesion to the new regime. A train loaded with troops also is on its way to Saltillo from the capital, and in the event that Gov. Carranza maintains his attitude toward President Huerta these men will be used against him and his followers.
    Gov. Carranza is likely to have the support of Gov. Villareal of the State of Nuevo Leon, father-in-law of the murdered Gustavo Madero. Neither of these men has at his command any great number of regular troops.
    The Government has also dispatched troops to Aguas Calientes, where Gov. Fuentes is hostile to the new Administration, although he has taken no active step toward a counter-revolution.

Diaz Seeks Outside Support.
    Emissaries of Felix Diaz started on a trip throughout the country to assure his partisans that everything had been adjusted, and to ask them to recognize the Government of Gen. Huerta.
    Gen. Pascual Orozco, according to newspaper dispatches from Chihuahua, yesterday conferred at Palomes in the State of Chihuahua with David de la Fuente, who has been chosen from the rebel list as a Cabinet Minister. Orozco will accompany Señor de la Fuente to the Federal capital, it is said, in order personally to profess his allegiance to the new Government.
    Gen. Aguilar and Col. de la Llave, who have been in rebellion in the South, are reported to be in accord with the new Administration.
    The first intimation that a part of the Zapatistas had joined forces with the new Administration was contained in news received at the National Palace that Julian Pacheco, leader of the Federal Army at Cuautla, in the State of Morelos, who had been one of the first, to declare for Felix Diaz, had succeeded in winning over many of Zapata's followers. Pacheco will use this force in connection with his own, which is now moving on Cuernavaca, which will be occupied in the name of the new Government.
    Emiliano Zapata himself sent word to the capital that he was satisfied with the new regime, but he requested the removal of Gov. Patricio Leyva of Morelos.
    Gen. Huerta has already used his new powers to put to right what had long been considered a direct slight to the army. He had long pleaded for promotions for a number of officers of the regulars, but had seen Francisco Madero's Administration pass over their heads men whose only service had been that of revolutionary heroes. Gen. Huerta has promoted four Generals and a number of inferior officers of the line. The Generals are Aurelio Blanquet, Joaquin Maas, Alberto Yarza, and Cauz, all of whom took an active part in the fighting in the streets of the capital.

Madero's Wife Visits Him.
    Señora Madero, wife of the ex-President, and Señora Suarez, wife of the ex-Vice President, to-day, for the first time since their husbands were arrested, were permitted to visit them in the palace. The conferences lasted one hour and were private. When the women left the palace they appeared to be deeply apprehensive as to the fate of their husbands.
    Gen. Huerta, however, has given his personal assurance to Señora Madero that her husband is not to be killed. From the fact that his life was not taken during the excitement attending his downfall, it is believed that some more humane measures will be devised for his elimination from public life. It is probable that this point will be discussed at the first meeting of the Cabinet and also in Congress, which reconvened in ordinary session to-day.
    Solicitude for the personal safety of Madero was given by Gen. Huerta to diplomats to-day as the reason why he could not be removed from the capital for the present. Gen. Huerta recalled the historic attack upon the train which bore Porfirio Diaz to Vera Cruz on his exile to Europe when Huerta himself was in command of the escort.
    Gen. Huerta added that the investigation of the records of the Madero Administration were being continued with great care. Charges, which are not altogether substantiated, have been made by the new authorities which tend to indicate that the Madero Administration in its extremity was contemplating a wholesale slaughter. More than one list of names of those proscribed has been found, it is alleged, and a police officer is authority for a statement that Francisco Madero personally and verbally gave him a list of forty-three Deputies, a number of Senators, and all the newspaper men, including the foreign correspondents, with instructions to have them assassinated. The police officer said that since this order was not in writing he did not feel obliged to obey.
    Such stories as this have created a bitter sentiment against Francisco Madero and have caused a number of men whose names were on the lists to use their influence to secure summary punishment for the fallen President.
    Gen. Felipe Angeles, former commander of the army operating at Cuernavaca, and Gen. Joaquín Fausto Beltran, former commander of the Federals at Vera Cruz, are to be subjected to an inquiry by the Military Court. Gen. Beltran will be tried for the part he played in attacking Vera Cruz last year at the time of the uprising fomented by Gen. Diaz. He is accused of misuse of the white flag in capturing Vera Cruz and making a prisoner of Gen. Diaz, who later was brought to the capital and remained incarcerated until the recent revolt.
    It was charged, at the time that Diaz's revolt failed, Diaz believed that Beltran's forces would join him. Beltran and his men, under a flag of truce, were permitted to enter Vera Cruz, and Diaz was seized by the Federal commander and placed in prison.
    Gen. Angeles will be tried for failure to obey an order of Gen. Huerta to report to the palace with his forces on the last day of the recent fighting in the city. Gen. Huerta intended to get Angeles to the palace as a part of his plan for ending the battle. Angeles is confined in the same room in the palace with ex-President Madero.
    Gen. Huerta yesterday received the members of the diplomatic corps for the first time since his selection. All of them expressed themselves highly pleased with the restoration of peace in the capital, and many of them privately told of their satisfaction with the change of Administration.
    The new Cabinet Ministers took charge of their respective departments to-day and made only a few changes in the official staffs.